| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 69.08 |
| Liaison | Andrew Horning |
| Submission Date | June 25, 2018 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Michigan
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Andrew
Horning Managing Director Graham Sustainability Institute |
Does the institution have an ongoing program or programs that offer incentives for faculty in multiple disciplines or departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing courses?:
A brief description of the program(s), including positive outcomes during the previous three years (e.g. descriptions of new courses or course content resulting from the program):
Michigan Sustainability Cases Initiative (MSC) was initially funded with $2 million from the Transforming Learning in the Third Century initiative and the School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNRE) to build a case-based curriculum for sustainability education in a variety of professional schools. MSC is writing and piloting initial cases throughout the U-M campus from its current home in SNRE. For over 30 years, SNRE professors have successfully taught with case-based learning in their classrooms, which has proved more effective than lectures. MSC is reimagining this technique, while drawing from decades of in-house experience. This initiative will widely encourage case-based teaching and learning methods across the University of Michigan campus, the U.S., and beyond. This page shows a timeline of milestones, starting with Summer 2015 at the bottom of the page. Milestones include receiving a 4 year 1.6 million dollar grant, a partnership formed with UM's Office of Academic Innovation, curricular advisors brought on to review potential cases, one case being translated into French and taught in Gabon in June 2016, another case was discussed at the October 2016 AASHE meeting and more...see http://www.teachmsc.org/msc/milestones
A brief description of the incentives that faculty members who participate in the program(s) receive:
As an incentive for case development, faculty are given a moderate amount of teaching credit (credit toward their annual teaching load) for completion of an MSC case.
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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